Level 6
L6 Semester Syllabus 2012 I
Students book
Teachers book
Writing Skills Topics
L6 Taboo cards technology
L6 Taboo cards – blank
Passive Voice
Although passive voice is not explicitly covered in level 6, it may be useful for your students to
cover. The following review worksheet is therefore supplied for you to use as you see fit.
L6 Passive voice review ws S
L6 Passive voice review ws T
Unit 1
L6 U1 Environmental cartoons
The following zip file contains an environmental vocabulary and song activity using “Mercy, Mercy
Me” by Marvin Gaye:
L6 U1 Environmental vocabulary and song activity
L6 U1-1 Simpsons cut up key
L6 U1-1 Simpsons cut up students
L6U1-1 Vocabulary Review
Infinitive of Purpose online exercises:
http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=4685
http://gmx.xmu.edu.cn/ews/exercises/grammar/01/01ex96.htm
L6U1-2 Vocabulary Review
L6 U1-3 Opinion Essay Genre Analysis Exercise
L6 U1-3 Paragraph structure reference material
L6 U1-3 Essay editing checklist
L6 U1-3 Writing punctuation practice
L6 1-3 Correcting comma splices
L6 U1-3 Thesis statement practice
L6 U1-3 Topic Sentences review Powerpoint presentation
Topic Sentences online reference material:
http://writesite.elearn.usyd.edu.au/m3/m3u2/m3u2s3/m3u2s3_1.htm
Unit 2
L6 U2 Endangered species film
L6 U2-1 vocabulary exercise
The following zip file contains a full class activity on Africa and the ivory trade, which combines
vocabulary, speaking (including a debate) and reading:
L6 U2 Africa class
Quantifiers online reference material and exercises:
http://www.learn4good.com/languages/evrd_grammar/quantifier.htm
Unit 3
L6 U3-1 Big Yellow Taxi cloze song activity
L6 U3-1 Vocabulary crossword
L6 U3-1 Vocabulary crossword Answers
L6 U3-2 Vocabulary Crossword
L6 U3-2 Vocabulary Crossword Answers
The following powerpoint presentation can be used in conjunction with the lesson on sentence
structure and comma splices; this is taken from the OWL Purdue Online Writing Lab:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/media/ppt/20071015100257_692.ppt
L6 U3-2 Clauses and FANBOYS practice
L6 3-2 Independent clauses, run on sentences and FANBOYS practice
Sentence Structure online resources:
Simple, compound & complex sentences video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hby4NBOwf7E&feature=player_embedded
PDF worksheet on different sentence types:
http://www.old.abcusd.k12.ca.us/dist_info/schl/tetz2/7th%20PDF%20Grammar/7th%20Compoun
d-Complex%20Sentences.pdf
Exercises on different sentence types:
http://www.esc.edu/htmlpages/writerold/pandg/exg10a.shtml
http://www.esc.edu/htmlpages/writerold/pandg/exg10b.shtml
Comma splice video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cxierBNFvc&feature=player_embedded
Sentence punctuation patterns reference:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/604/1/
Independent & dependent clauses exercises:
http://depts.dyc.edu/learningcenter/owl/exercises/clauses_ex1.htm
http://depts.dyc.edu/learningcenter/owl/exercises/clauses_ex2.htm
Run-on & comma splice reference & exercises:
http://depts.dyc.edu/learningcenter/owl/run-ons.htm
http://depts.dyc.edu/learningcenter/owl/comma_splices.htm
Non-defining relative clauses comma placement exercises:
http://depts.dyc.edu/learningcenter/owl/exercises/comma_placement_ex6.htm
Compound sentences comma placement exercises:
http://depts.dyc.edu/learningcenter/owl/exercises/comma_placement_ex4.htm
Comma placement after dependent clauses exercises:
http://depts.dyc.edu/learningcenter/owl/exercises/comma_placement_ex3.htm
Unit 4
Defining relative clauses video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqsCIl25gFE&feature=player_embedded
Who vs. whom videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjmisJQNs3s&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5baztIqMDH8&feature=player_embedded
Unit 5
Referencing reference materials
http://writesite.elearn.usyd.edu.au/m3/m3u5/m3u5s5/m3u5s5_1.htm
Conditionals video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmySylNR4tM
Conditionals reference material & exercises (doesn't have zero conditional):
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/conditional-sentences
Zero conditional reference material:
http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/verbs-conditional_5.htm
Unit 6
U6 Vocab
U6-1 Space program listening
Technologic song and vocabulary activity
Articles videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeSmPmI6FuE&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_puu1H62rVE&feature=player_embedded
Articles exercises:
http://www.eslpdf.com/esl_articles.html
http://www.eslgamesworld.com/members/games/grammar/basketball/Articles/Articles%20defini
te%20and%20indefinite.html
Determiners reference material and exercises:
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/determiners/determiners.htm
Argumentative Essay video:
http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/colombiagull-991015-universidad-externadoenglish-workshop-the-argumentative-essay/
Unit 7
U7 Vocab
U7-3 iLeavevladdo
Dependent prepositions exercises:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/apps/ifl/worldservice/quiznet/quizengine?ContentTypehttp://www.blogge
r.com/img/blank.gif=text/html;quiz=938_dependent_preps
Preposition & gerund reference material:
http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/verbs-gerunds_2.htm
Preposition & gerund exercises:
http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/structures/gerund_prepositions.htm
Unit 8
U8-2 Mixed Conditionals video http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/colombiagull1246062-mixed-conditionals-ppp-voice/
U8-2 Mixed Conditionals worksheet
U8-2 Mixed conditional exercises
U8-3 I Could Have Been A Contender video
U8-3 On the Waterfront active passive and past advisability intro
U8-3 Past Advisability situations
U8-3 ANSWERS Advisability in the past Morrissey song
U8-3 SS_Advisability_in_the_past_Morrissey_song
Unit 9
The following video exercise is based around a US high school which is dealing with the issue of
technology in different ways:
U9 Woodside High ws students
U9 Woodside High ws teachers
Defining and non-defining relative clauses video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MZEGTBC0RAU
Non-defining relative clauses comma placement exercises:
http://depts.dyc.edu/learningcenter/owl/exercises/comma_placement_ex6.htm
Linking words punctuation exercises:
http://depts.dyc.edu/learningcenter/owl/exercises/comma_placement_ex1.htm
Unit 10
U10-2 Life through a Lens summary
Narrative tenses:
Past perfect simple and past perfect continuous video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqk1qPmtMRE&feature=player_embedded
Past perfect continuous and past continuous reference material:
http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/pastperfectcontinuous.html
Past perfect reference material:
http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/pastperfect.html
Past continuous reference material:
http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/pastcontinuous.html
Past simple reference material:
http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/simplepast.html
Narrative tenses exercises:
http://www.oup.com/elt/global/products/naturalenglish/upp/a_grammar/unit05/neup_grammar
05/
http://www.admc.hct.ac.ae/hd1/english/narrate/narrtense.htm
http://www.cesdonbosco.com/filologia/english/narrative_tenses.htm
http://www.ice.urv.es/eoiact/level3/narrativetenses1.htm
Sample essays
Sample opinion essay 1
Sample opinion essay 2
Sample argumentative essay 1
Sample argumentative essay 2
Exam practice materials:
L6 Reading practice
L6 Reading practice text
L6 Reading Comprehension Practice
L6 Listening practice
L6 Listening practice mp3
L6 listening practice 2